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SAMETTRICK (1944)
Service dates: 1944-1947
Official number: 169783
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 31.12.1943
- Launched.
- 01.1944
- Completed as Samettrick for the United States War Shipping Administration and chartered to the British Ministry of War Transport (The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, managers).
- 12.01.1944/17.04.1947
- Allocated to the Liner Division but spent some time with the Commercial Branch and as a Mechanical Transport Ship.
- 23.05.1947
- Delivered to Houlder Line Ltd, London (Houlder Bros & Co Ltd, managers) and renamed Elstree Grange.
- 1960
- Sold to the Polish Government (Polish Steamship Co, Szczecin, managers) and renamed Kopalnia Miechowice.
- 09.03.1972
- Sold to Eurometal Anstalt thence to Brodospas, Split for demolition.
- 10.05.1972
- Demolition commenced.